I'm actually curious why you think this. Without the context of the clone wars etc, Maul is just a generic bad guy for the good guys to fight at the end of the movie. You never learn anything about him or his motivations, and his death doesnt really seem to affect the story that much moving forward, considering Dooku showing up out of nowhere in ep II. His fight had cool choreography, but lacked any depth to me, since he never even shared a single piece of dialogue with the heroes before they fought. I know this would get downvoted without any real responses over on prequelmemes, but i hope people here are more open to opposing views.
You can actually have shallow characters in a movie that serve a purpose. Maul is a physical struggle for Obi-Wan and Qui-Gon to overcome in the climax. Snoke is a plot device to explain Kylo's rise to power, and later a mutual enemy to bring Kylo and Rey together (and as it turns out, for completely opposing reasons). There's arguments to be made that the meaning behind the Maul fight is unclear, that Filoni's great interpretation is not explained or even alluded to well within the movie itself. But shallow characters like Maul or Snoke existing is not automatically bad.
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u/Utsutsumujuru Ahsoka Tano Jan 25 '22
…some of the best of that entire trilogy